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Stop Employee Turnover with Better Onboarding

JazzHR

Stop Employee Turnover with a Better Onboarding System. This may come as a surprise, but within one year of hiring most companies lose more than a quarter of their new employees. Each lost employee might cost your company upwards of $65,000 as a result. Shocking, but yes, it’s actually that expensive to replace talented people. The high turnover rate is often attributed to employees leaving for greener pastures, but in most cases it’s because they weren’t happy with the onboarding process.

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Employer Branding Q&A with Kathryn Minshew and Lars Schmidt

Lever

Kathryn Minshew left, Lars Schmidt right. Last week, we brought two talent all-stars – Kathryn Minshew , CEO and founder of The Muse , and Lars Schmidt , founder of Amplify Talent – together in a special Q&A-style webinar to answer our listeners’ most burning employer branding questions.

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8 Ways to Take Control of Your Productivity – NOW!

Social Talent

Within recruitment, effective time management is absolutely integral. You will often be dealing with various projects, working on different types of roles, with different agencies/clients, and have to seamlessly transition between these tasks, AND stick to multiple deadlines. It’s exhausting, right? So it’s no surprise that this job involves long hours, and a good deal of stress.

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Sourcing Eggs

The Whiteboard

No Whiteboard blog this week for it is Good Friday, as I’m sure you well know. I’ll be busy hiding eggs and such forth so from me and all of us at Rice Consulting, Happy Easter. Now go put your finely honed sourcing skills to good use and go hunt some chocolate. Because that’s what Easter is all about right? See you next week at the #RicePowWow.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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4 Ways to Make Your Easter Break Eggs-ellent!

FireFish Software

Even if you don’t celebrate the religious side of Easter, who can say no to a long weekend? If you’re like the Firefish lot, you may not be off all weekend – we’ll be making the most of the long lie on the Monday morning - but you can pack a lot into the time away from your desk (and the days you are in the office).

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Newton Bootcamp: The State of Recruiting #nowmobile

Newton Software

As employers, we must go where the talent – and the times – are taking us. JOIN US FOR A FREE, ONLINE RECRUITING BOOTCAMP. Newton co-founder and resident recruiting expert Joel Passen will offer practical tips for creating a simple, smart, safe approach to meeting applicants on the mobile web without compromising compliance. Join this free online bootcamp and take a swipe in the right direction.

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Why You Shouldn’t Fear Candidate Feedback

Glassdoor for Employers

No matter how much time and energy you dedicate to your recruiting efforts, opening yourself up to feedback from candidates can be a little intimidating. Will they expose your biggest flaws and embarrass you and your colleagues? There’s a chance that these things will happen, but the rewards of getting honest feedback from candidates are so much greater than the risks.

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How to Use Twitter For Recruiting (in 500 Words)

Symphony Talent

With more than one billion accounts and 9,000 different job channels in TweetMyJobs, it’s easy to understand why companies are trying to figure out how to use Twitter as part of their overall recruitment marketing strategy. But news flash: Twitter is not another career site. Career Sites vs. Social Recruiting Career sites are dedicated. Continue Reading → The post How to Use Twitter For Recruiting (in 500 Words) appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Get the Most Out of your Next Recruiter Conference

NPA Worldwide

Conferences can be one of the most valuable business tools in your various resources if you appropriately plan and attack them. Each event you attend could very well have in attendance one of the most important business contacts you meet, someone who could change your business model by listening to a speaker, add revenue by becoming your new split placement partner, or reduce cost significantly with a new tool from a sponsor.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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10 Tips for Standing Out on LinkedIn

Undercover Recruiter

What does it take to become a LinkedIn WINNER? Although there’s more to creating a great presence on the network than merely creating a profile and leaving it to work it’s magic, ensuring that you fill your profile out fully and sell yourself in the best possible way really can make a difference. Whether you’re looking. View Article. 10 Tips for Standing Out on LinkedIn.

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3 Habits Every Tech Recruiter Needs to Attract Passive Candidates

Stack Overflow

Tech hiring hasn’t gotten any easier in 2016. In fact, 91% of the developers we surveyed this year told us they’re gainfully employed. It’s clear that a majority of candidates you’ll reach out to won’t be actively searching for a new job, but there are some best practices for recruiting passive tech candidates that aren’t always as obvious. With competition for tech talent as fierce as ever, which of these best practices are the most effective tech recruiters turning into habits?

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Quick Tips on How to Source IT Specialists

TalentLyft

How to find exceptional IT specialist? If so, use these quick tips on how to source IT specialists. This is the biggest problem on major world market. Sourcing specialist in IT world is increasingly difficult, particularly in competitive markets like London, Berlin and New York. High cost, inefficient sorting and lack of transparency has prompted many companies to avoid recruitment agencies when it comes to searching for IT specialist.

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MSP in APAC: why you should go 'glocal'

Allegis Global Solutions

Combining global reach with local expertise is key to success in APAC.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Are You a Robotic Leader? Five Questions to Gauge Your Level of Emotional Intelligence

FlashPoint

Ever-evolving technology, globalization, and other factors have changed the way we interact as humans, which in turn changes the way we do work. To make an impact in the workplace today, it’s not just a matter of “what you know” but also “how you are” as a person. Emotional intelligence—how we relate to and collaborate with others—distinguishes us as humans.

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Mapping the candidate journey [Webinar]

Phenom People

Do you know how your candidates approach the job search? That is the candidate journey. Understanding your candidates’ thought processes, interests and needs goes a long way towards being able to create the type of experience that attracts, engages and ultimately convinces top talent that your company is right for them. Join Phenom People CEO.

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How to Write Attractive Job Postings: 6 Practical Tips

Brazen Recruiting

An exciting new vacancy with unlimited growth opportunity has opened at your organization, so naturally you’re hoping to attract lots of high – quality candidates in a bid to find a superstar. So you craft what you consider to be an attractive and compelling job posting and wait for the high-caliber resumes to start rolling in. But all too often they don’t.

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Interactive Media Strategy – Adding Video to Your Recruitment

Harger Howe Recruitment

In recent years, video has taken the Internet by storm. On Facebook, native video is driving traffic like crazy. On YouTube, certain individuals are making a living purely based on being a YouTube personality. Video was bound to make its recruitment debut at some point. In fact, many candidates have made their own video applications. For instance, Hubspot’s own Senior Technology Partner Marketing Manager, Al Biedrzycki got his start that way.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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Introducing Hiregrid Analytics: Easy, accurate analytics for your career site.

Recruiting Blogs

70% of Talent Recruiting Leaders believe that they’re using data poorly. Applicant tracking systems simply aren’t designed to provide the data you need to plan and execute an effective recruitment marketing strategy. At the heart of the problem is flawed source tracking. Chris Hoyt (aka @TheRecruiterGuy ) writes that source tracking - the foundation of recruitment marketing analytics - is “an absolute train wreck.”.

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Event Recap: Dallas Best Places to Work Roadshow

Glassdoor for Employers

Admit it – when your company asks you to represent them at a vendor workshop, your mind immediately goes the most creative method to get out of it. You’re not alone – I have fallen into that category once or twice (or maybe three times…) during my career. However, I accepted the invitation to attend the Glassdoor Best Places to Work Roadshow in Dallas without even checking my calendar.

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How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Recruiting

Recruiting Blogs

How Machine Learning is Revolutionizing Recruiting. With the increasing demand for technical talent, it’s no surprise that the recruiting arms race continues to push companies to create new ways of attracting the very best people… One of the newest weapons in the arsenal in machine learning. What is Machine Learning? Machine learning is giving computers the ability to learn without explicit programming.

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3 simple steps to a more effective hiring process

WebRecruit

Getting the right people through your company’s door can be very hard – after all, if it wasn’t, there wouldn’t be so many firms using a recruitment advertising agency like Webrecruit. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some very simple measures that can be adopted to remove a lot of the stress and slog from your own organisation’s hiring process.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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Sourcecon Spring 2016 Part 2!!

Recruiting Blogs

So this is the 2nd presentation of the conference. Titled “Sourcing for Diversity: one recruiter’s Journey” by Johnny Campbell. Johnny begins talking about Unconscious Bias. He talks about System 1 or automatic response, and system 2. System 1 sees patterns and defaults these patterns to rules. He talks about how we can leverage this desire to find patterns. .

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2 unexpected benefits of the right in-house recruitment software

WebRecruit

There aren’t many heavier responsibilities that any HR professional will ever be handed than that of employee recruitment. If you are to consistently hire the right staff, however, you will need the strongest possible foundation for your recruitment process. You really can’t hope to find a better foundation than the right in-house recruitment software.

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Whats App Group Chat - Appraisal Expectations v/s Reality and your reasons why?

Recruiting Blogs

With the appraisals round the corner everyone is on the hunt to prove why they deserve a raise but how many of us have been realistic in our responses and expectations? Exactly, most of us usually tend to ignore the reality in our responses and expectations. Everyone wants the max and most definitely expect a hike. . This is the reality hence we @SourcingAdda decided to utilise this opportunity to help you stop and think about things that wouldn’t cross your mind otherwise.

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The Top 5 Zenefits Competitors

Capterra

Zenefits has really shaken up the HR software industry since launching in 2013. With millions in VC money, a slick, web-based platform, and an innovative business model that means they can offer their HR product for free to companies looking for a comprehensive benefits, payroll, time, and compliance tool, Zenefits has grown like gangbusters. In fact, in 2015, it was named the fastest-growing Silicon Valley company.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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10 THINGS RECRUITERS WANT IN CANDIDATES

Recruiting Blogs

I’m now coming to the end of my stay in this part of Thailand and we are now thinking of the next chapter in our adventure. So we are having a lot of fun planning or journey and looking at the next place where we would like to go. Whilst doing a little work in-between. As you know at the beginning of the year I set up www.virtualdemon.com. This is a virtual assistant and administrative online business focusing on the recruitment sector in the UK.

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The Secret Sauce: Why It’s Time To Shut Up About Social Recruiting.

Recruiting Daily

Can we be honest for a moment? Maybe, as the kids say, “get real?”. When you and your talent acquisition team started talking about social recruiting, did you actually have a conversation as to why you needed social media, or did you just end up at “we need social recruiting because we need it?” Or “we need social recruiting because everyone else is doing it?”.

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Around the world in 8 hours - recruiting in Software Sales

Recruiting Blogs

We asked our Account Manager, Kimberley Wellen, what it's like recruiting for Software Sales. This is what she said. What’s it like working in the Software Sales team at FMC Global Talent? I love what I do and am lucky enough to genuinely like the people I work with. It’s not what you may traditionally think of in terms of recruitment environments…it’s like the love child of Michael Page and Google!